ntes writes that the next day after the Indians come back to the village from the hills are ordered to serve the houses of the town's influential citizens, and others for the sugar mills on the haciendas (91). This is how they first started getting exploited. The whites, or how the author calls them, gente de razon, people of reason, would use them to work for them like slaves and didn't pay them much so the Indians would live harsh lives.
             Another example, where the use of exploitation was forever present was when they made them work building the road (highway) and the church. A spokesman of the deputy came to the village and made a request: that the men of the rancheria, as well as all the other Indians h
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